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The term 'Saturday afternoon' is a noun phrase, the noun 'afternoon' described by the noun 'Saturday'.

  • A noun functioning as an adjective to describe another noun is called an attributive noun or a noun adjunct.
  • The noun 'Saturday' is a proper noun, the name of a specific day of the week. A proper noun is always capitalized.
  • The noun 'afternoon' is a common noun, a general word for a period of any day.

A noun phrase is a group of words based on a noun that functions as a unit in a sentence in any position that can be filled by a noun. Examples:

  • Saturday afternoon is the class picnic. (subject of the sentence)
  • We're going to the picnic on Saturday afternoon. (object of the preposition 'on')
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